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    austerity


    1. Stove: If there is fire in it, you will have good earnings; if not, it bodes austerity


    2. camouflage, as a shield against the austerity of the regime in which


    3. austerity of the day, began to flow


    4. The austerity of their manners gave them authority with the common people, who contrasted the strict regularity of their conduct with the disorderly lives of the greater part of their own clergy


    5. “But in this era of fiscal austerity, if a detective catches a case and there are cross-over crimes during the course of the investigation, he’s stuck cleaning up the mess


    6. able to embrace the austerity of His demands


    7. Q: I approve of austerity, but in practice I am all for luxury


    8. Both indulgence and austerity have the same purpose in view


    9. is all the austerity you need


    10. Her mother’s eyes, green, like her own and wide, with a slight upward slant at the edges, even in the dusky light seemed sharper than she remembered, but there was a raw austerity in them that made her wary

    11. must all suffer for many years, as austerity is the only way to


    12. austerity, you have seen bodies heavenly but could not define its


    13. Ditto ‘What if we accelerated the austerity measures?’ Ditto ‘What if we allowed a limited default on the indebtedness?’ I suspect these variables are all too marginal to make a difference


    14. The economic doctrine of austerity, to cut the burden of state spending to free up the economy, has ruled supreme with the support of all of the past leaders


    15. through austerity as per the will of the Isht (adored God)


    16. Austerity is a toxic tool by which many families are forced to move backward


    17. Austerity has no characteristic reasoning other than establishing riots for disorderly public outlook


    18. The punishment is austerity to reduce the work power from facing more of serious deficits


    19. The yagya of wisdom, made by means of austerity, continence, faith,


    20. North Africa and Arab states suddenly liberate themselves and become emblems of democratic desires, while post-industrial western nations march out legions of austerity propagandists to terrorize dream-starved populaces with tyrannies of corporate malfeasance enforcing social penury for slaveholder's benefit

    21. The efficient austerity of Nu Luv is why there are two types of humaniods: Ims and Nons


    22. Dire austerity is a patented trigger to bring about social chaos scenarios, which diffuses compassion and replaces it with self-survival


    23. Often it is best, as well as safest, he knew, to pretend not to have heard, not to have seen, not to have known; and he began telling her with deliberate distinctness of his vows of celibacy, of his dedication to the religious life, with all that it implied of poverty and austerity, and how his household arrangements were presided over by his sister, who was also vowed--perhaps unnecessarily vowed, he had sometimes privately thought, looking at her--to celibacy


    24. Ought he, then, to try to reach that stage? Was it required of him to begin to practise an austerity so great that it left nothing whatever in his life to comfort him except, three times a day, a little water?


    25. Flight, panic-stricken flight from whatever it was that had happened to him, flight into austerity, into a frantic concentration on saving and being saved, was what he was suddenly set on


    26. He happened to stare a moment too long and ended up mesmerized by the sheer austerity of those eyes


    27. If poorer in other ways she departed at least richer in philosophy, without a trace of jealousy of what he might do next, not minding what he did if only she did not have to do it, too, and he, until such time as he again was lured from paths of austerity and work by the hope that he had found the one predestined mate, enjoyed the condition in which he was altogether happiest, the freedom of spirit that disdains love


    28. In return for another 110 billion Euros, the Greek politicians promised to enforce even more severe austerity package on pay, pension and job cuts


    29. This is not what the ordinary Greek in the street wanted; he or she wanted an end to austerity and pay cuts


    30. Cameron once again pushed the tough austerity measures that Greece must follow, but dodged answering the question as to where Greece was going to get the vast sums from

    31. The Chief Of Police knew what more austerity measures meant


    32. The economy had stalled, and the bailouts were given on condition that Greece imposed harsh and crippling austerity measures


    33. No way were the Greek people going to foot their bill that entailed punitive and harsh austerity measures


    34. As we already know the Greeks are protesting, demonstrating, rioting and rebelling against the harsh austerity measures like never before


    35. To qualify for the next much-needed bailout, Greece needed to deepen its already drastic austerity measures


    36. To see just what this new tax bill entailed, and to further discuss Greece’s austerity measures, Chancellor Merkel flew into Athens


    37. In austerity and poverty-stricken Greece such sights were becoming rare


    38. This small group summed it all up; everyone in austerity Britain was struggling


    39. At a time when help was needed the most, the Conservative Party was making the most profound and punitive changes to the whole social benefit system, the NHS, crippling taxation that was out of sync with people’s incomes, and devastating austerity measures that would sooner or later result in riots and social unrest


    40. “These black mob attacks had nothing to do with austerity or unemployment

    41. These banks or financial institutions (such as IMF) could dictate what they had to sell off, impose austerity measures, and seize a nation’s assets


    42. Already, Britain has seen the worst austerity measures in living memory


    43. That the austerity measures and other such cuts will soon make everything better, but it won’t


    44. Of sober architecture, simplicity and harmonious dimensions, it is richly decorated and this contrasts with the austerity of the monument


    45. Happy thou, above all the squires in the world! Bear in mind, and let it not escape thy memory, how she receives thee; if she changes colour while thou art giving her my message; if she is agitated and disturbed at hearing my name; if she cannot rest upon her cushion, shouldst thou haply find her seated in the sumptuous state chamber proper to her rank; and should she be standing, observe if she poises herself now on one foot, now on the other; if she repeats two or three times the reply she gives thee; if she passes from gentleness to austerity, from asperity to tenderness; if she raises her hand to smooth her hair though it be not disarranged


    46. Sancho ate without requiring to be pressed, and in the dark bolted mouthfuls like the knots on a tether, and said he, "You are a proper trusty squire, one of the right sort, sumptuous and grand, as this banquet shows, which, if it has not come here by magic art, at any rate has the look of it; not like me, unlucky beggar, that have nothing more in my alforjas than a scrap of cheese, so hard that one might brain a giant with it, and, to keep it company, a few dozen carobs and as many more filberts and walnuts; thanks to the austerity of my master, and the idea he has and the rule he follows, that knights-errant must not live or sustain themselves on anything except dried fruits and the herbs of the field


    47. It might be partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners


    48. Never had such austerity been seen in my conduct before


    49. This of course could be a mad point of view, but as I write inflation is coming, austerity and economic rebuilding is on the horizon; does that seem late ’70s or early ’80s to you?


    50. 29) At nearly seven decades’ remove from Graham and Dodd’s second edition, and even further from the Great Crash of 1929, the language, let alone the permanent frame of mind, of disciplined austerity does not come easily to the contemporary investor (let alone speculator)













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    Synonyms for "austerity"

    asceticism austerity nonindulgence hardness stiffness rigidity acerbity formality severity sharpness solemnity

    "austerity" definitions

    the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)